
Amy Kelley
@akelleymd
Geriatrician, Palliative Care physician and Health Services researcher. Tweets are my own.
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27-05-2011 17:12:29
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456 Followers
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NEW: #AmericaNeedsPennsylvania w/ Bruce Bruce Springsteen ! Donald Trump arrives in Pennsylvania later today. We need more than **1 MILLION VIEWS** before he lands. Please RETWEET and QUOTE RETWEET. !!! TURN VOLUME UP LOUD !!!

If you call yourself #palliativecare, are you? Putting diverse #palliative care programs into a meta-analysis to find a uniform outcome isn't going to work. This thread by @klharrisonPhD is what we've been talking about! Stacie Sinclair Allison Silvers Amy Kelley @DianeEMeier

“Being #antiracist #DataScientists isn’t a one-time decision or something we will ever fully achieve, but instead a commitment we make each day, now and in the future, towards building a more equitable and just world.”- Emily Hadley #DataScience #MustRead towardsdatascience.com/5-steps-to-tak…

New in the Journal of Gerontology: Series A Gerontological Society of America (GSA) w/ Yuting Qian, Xi Chen | 陈希 Amy Kelley @Diwen_Tang: we produced the first national estimate of prevalence of memory-related diagnosis among US older adults with incident cognitive impairment academic.oup.com/biomedgerontol…


Authors include: Stacie Sinclair Allison Silvers Brynn Bowman Rachael Heitner Amy Kelley @DianeEMeier Melissa Aldridge #hapc


Meet our spotlight of the week, Dr. Talia Swartz! She is a 2020 Distinguished Scholar Awardee whose work focuses on the role of HIV infection in chronic inflammation #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM Talia H. Swartz youtu.be/UeCbUA6Y0HA





"Women were disproportionately affected by the pandemic...we need investment to reinvigorate the workforce, and to support the fragile careers of younger scientists who are just starting their laboratories." Read Prof. Akiko Iwasaki's full interview: nature.com/articles/s4200…

Please join us at the Office of Gender Equity's Amplifying Equity Speaker Series kick-off event: "Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Sponsorship" featuring Dr. Elizabeth Travis Elizabeth Travis,PhD on Tuesday, September 28, 4pm – 5:30 pm Register here: tinyurl.com/amplifyequity



👏🏼Congrats to gen surg resident Dr. Claire Sokas on her 1st-author publication in J. of the American Geriatrics Society American Geriatrics Society: Understanding the role of informal caregivers in postoperative care transitions for older patients. Zara Cooper bit.ly/3vH3iN7.


Supporting caregivers supports #EquityInBiomed. Together with American Heart Association, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, John Templeton Foundation, #RitaAllenFoundation & #WalderFoundation, we’re proud to announce grants to 22 medical schools and hospitals leading the way to a more equitable field: bit.ly/COVID19FRCS


Far lower rates of home services, support, physical therapy for community-caused disability (compared to hospital-caused) High impact & useful research from Claire Ankuda #AGS22 Ken Covinsky Amy Kelley @MSHSGeriPalCare American Geriatrics Society


Journal of Palliative Medicine Authors developed definition of #neonatal serious illness. Findings suggest serious illness differs for #neonates when compared to adults; definition will be important for future work. liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.10… Katherine Guttmann Amy Kelley @PremieDoc Renee Boss

New in JAMA Neurology w/ @JonSkinner17 Kathleen McGarry Lauren H. Nicholas Amy Kelley and others: US older adults at high risk of #dementia had a median #wealth decline of ~50% in the decade prior to dementia onset compared to matched controls w/o dementia. (1/n) tinyurl.com/3a6f64ds
